Why should I have such a strong conviction without a good cause?
One has heard of a presentiment of evil--I can't help feeling that this is a presentiment of good.

The question is, how can we best go there again?
I don't think it is in the least likely that the governor will have heard of our flight, as this would be the last direction anyone would think of our taking, for had we done so, we might have met the Sultan on his way back from Bangalore.

It will naturally be supposed that we have made for the frontier, and have descended the Western or Southern Ghauts.

The affair will, of course, seem a mystery to them altogether; for why should two young fellows, so recently promoted, and in such high favour, desert Tippoo's service?
If they do not associate Annie's disappearance with our flight--and there is no reason on earth why they should do so, as no one ever saw us speaking to her--they will most likely think that we have fallen into the hands of the Dacoits, or Thugs, and have been murdered.

Numbers of people do disappear every year, and are, as everyone supposes, victims of that detestable sect.
My uncle has told me of Thugs.